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# Day 79 - 2010
It's a lazy saturday morning. And I should be halfway across the city by now.
Doesn't that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child?
17Those heretical teachers go to great lengths to flatter you, but their motives are rotten. They want to shut you out of the free world of God's grace so that you will always depend on them for approval and direction, making them feel important.
Here's my thoughts for the day's reading.
The entire of Galatians 4 I believe was to prove that we are free and not slaves. But to me personally, something hit home first. What happened to that "privilege" of intimate conversation with God? Wait, did I read it correctly, privilege? Why does it so many times feel like a chore to pray. To just spend time in my position of privilege. Obviously something is very wrong here. I'm closer to the prodigal's son that I actually realise.
And the other thing, is about the slave and freedom. Yeah, to me, the verse doesn't apply to any particular person that was a heretical teacher. But this thought pattern and mindset has gone to great lengths to flatter me. To depend on it for approval and direction, but resulting in failure and rejection. And I believe it would be something that I will be working to break free from. To truly be the son of Sarah and not Hagar.
The Freedom We Know now sounds like an appropriate song.
the story ends like this;
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